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Upgrading WordPress Download WordPress 2.5.1

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available.

It contains an important security fix and about 70 bug fixes, along with other performance improvements.

Here are some important changes:

• Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• Better performance for those who have many categories
• Media Uploader fixes
• An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• Widget Administration fixes
• Various usability improvements
• Layout fixes for IE

It’s important that everyone running WordPress upgrade to this new version. I will do so during the day. Remember to backup everything first, and if you have the chance, test it locally .

WordPress 2.5.1 Release Notes

Finally, after some weeks of waiting the highly anticipated Wordpress version 2.5 is released as final.

This new version includes new features, a great design overhaul for the user interface or frontend and tight security measures to prevent hacks or takeovers on blogs.

All the work is done after six months of development. A few weeks ago, Matt, the founder of Wordpress posted a screencast for people to see the new interface in action.

The new features are extensive, if you want to read about the mall, go here.

Be sure to read all the documentation before attempting to upgrade because some plugins or themes may not work with this new version. I posted some instructions on how to upgrade earlier versions wordpress if you want some advice.

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I just finished upgrading my site to the latest version of WordPress.

Hopefully there won’t be any need to upgrade it any time soon.

If you need advise on how to upgrade, visit this post i made when i did my first WordPress upgrade.

WordPress 2.3.3 is available.

There has been some security flaws and other bugs that are addressed in this new version.

WordPress Development Team:

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.

Also, there is a vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that is being actively exploited right now. If you are using this plugin, please remove it until an update is available from its author.

Since we are talking security, remember to use strong passwords and change them regularly. While you’re updating WP and your plugins, consider refreshing your passwords.

More info here.

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Since I began using Wordpress in my site, I was very annoyed when using Code Tags formatting in my posts because sometimes I copy and paste text to the Wordpress visual editor and it always makes a mess with the formatting.

I had to write all the text I wanted to post instead of just pasting it. But now i found a great little program called Wordpress Code Marker-Upper in this site.

You just paste the code you want to post and it does the formatting and copies the code back to the clipboard. Now you can paste the code in Wordpress and it works great. What a time saver.

I hope Wordpress developers get this right in the next versions because it really is annoying.

WordPress 2.3.1 has been released. Version 2.3.1 fixes over twenty bugs, including one security ulnerability. If you want to read the details, Peter Westwood, a developer from WordPress has made a post explaining all the internals.

I will be backing up (as i always do and recommend) this site’s files and databases so i can test version 2.3.1 locally before going online.

I will post when i finish upgrading this site along with any other details/notes on how the upgrade went as this is the first time i will make a WordPress upgrade to my site.

If you own a WordPress blog, read the below link for instructions to make the upgrade.

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I was reading some blogs and came across this serious vulnerability in the way Wordpress handles the blogroll posting by unregistered users. The “wp-admin/link.php” script does not check the permissions of the user before adding a new Blogroll link.

BlogSecurity has posted a fix already, so it is highly recommended to fix it before you start to get spam on your blog. to fix it you just have to change some lines of code inside wp-admin/link.php.

if ( ! current_user_can('manage_links') )
wp_die( __('You do not have sufficient permissions
to edit the links for this blog.') );

If you want, there is a fixed link.php file here. Just backup your current file and replace it with this one.

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